On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Day Brown wrote: > And this kernel is without a GUI interface?
I think the X server - whether that be the full-blown Xwindows or something smaller like Xvesa - is something totally separate from the kernel. > What'd be neat, an could prolly be done in less than 10k of assy, would > be for the kernel to understand the dos command set, so that it wouldnt > bitch on the CLI if you forgot which OS you were running. Be nice if it The "alias" command is usually used for this, e.g., alias dir='ls -a'. The command is built into the shell - typically bash. ~/.bashrc is where such aliases can be made a feature of the user's shell environment. > I find the whole idea of a tiny kernel interesting, but full of > questions. Tiny means fast dont it? 16 bit? The full size 2.6.x kernel is noticeably faster on my newer machine - despite being noticeably larger - than the 2.4.x kernels on that same machine. The latter are a little under 1MB, the former a little over 1MB. Having never used the tiny kernel, I can't say how much faster it might be than a comparably sized earlier kernel. But it would be interesting to know. James
